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re: Bo Jackson ESPN's Greatest Athlete of All Time
Posted on 6/15/15 at 4:58 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Posted on 6/15/15 at 4:58 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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Say what?
Many people considered Neyland to be surpassed only by Thorpe as an athlete.
Neyland was a football star, a 20 game winner in baseball, and a heavyweight collegiate boxing champion. He was considered one of the greatest athletes of his day.
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Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:01 pm to SavageOrangeJug
Neyland is damn impressive there is no doubt. I still pick Thorpe over him and Bo Jackson, and Bo Jackson over Neyland... but we are at the top of Mount Everest in athletes here.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:04 pm to northalabamacracker
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ep cause B-Bo's name wouldn't even be mentioned. If not for the B-B-Bo knows commercials he would be all but forgotten except for the Family.
making fun of someone with a speech impediment, who has done so much to help the shitty city the team you root for is located in, sure is cool of you.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:08 pm to Gnar Cat21
But is it up there with making fun of someone with a drankin problem.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:09 pm to Fear The Thumb
Jesse Owens...
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:24 pm to Fear The Thumb
No titles. No care.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:26 pm to Fear The Thumb
Bo Jackson was a shooting star...
I've never seen anything like him
I've never seen anything like him
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:34 pm to TOKEN
Have none of you motherfrickers ever heard of Jim Thorpe?
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:37 pm to FourThreeForty
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Have none of you motherfrickers ever heard of Jim Thorpe?
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Jim Thorpe and General Robert R. Neyland were better athletes than Bo.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:39 pm to TOKEN
I'm a huge Bo fan. Herschel is in down the street, and Willie Gault (summer AND winter Olympian, in addition to being a 1st rounder with a Super Bowl ring) is in an adjoining zip code.
Jim Thorpe and a couple of others are neighbors. That's it.
Jim Thorpe and a couple of others are neighbors. That's it.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:44 pm to murfvol
It should be noted MJ's hitting .202 in AA is a seriously underrated feat. The man hadn't thought about baseball in a decade.
Dave Winfield should get a shout-out too, as should Danny Ainge.
Dave Winfield should get a shout-out too, as should Danny Ainge.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:49 pm to Fear The Thumb
Kaitlyn disagrees and so will ESPN, bitch...
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:50 pm to Fear The Thumb
I can live with this. I mean, we can always bring up the guys who played approximately all the sports ever invented back in the early 1900s, but for sheer athletic prowess, I have no problem with Bo Jackson being picked.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:56 pm to Fear The Thumb
Jim Thorpe
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:58 pm to Roger Klarvin
Bo for me will always be #1, just an insanely gifted man who, by all accounts, didn't like sports all that much.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:01 pm to Othello
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Jim Thorpe
There's a lot to debate here, and Thorpe, of course, was one of the first to come to mind, but I wonder whether one could make the claim that Thorpe was the most versatile athlete but Bo was the most physically gifted athlete? The question of what one means by "athlete" isn't a simple one.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:23 pm to Fear The Thumb
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:36 pm to FourThreeForty
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Have none of you motherfrickers ever heard of Jim Thorpe?
I doubt you ever saw Jim Thorpe
We've all heard of him though thanks. My comments were about the "best athlete I've ever seen".
This post was edited on 6/15/15 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:48 pm to TOKEN
DANNY AINGE IS THE ONLY FIRST TEAM ALL AMERICAN IN ALL THREE MAJOR SPORTS.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:54 pm to TOKEN
Bo is easily number one for me. i'll never forget that feeling i had when bo went down. watching him run was a thing of beauty. his run up the fence in baseball. i had never seen that before.
bo's big bad hip
bo's big bad hip
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